A TRAIN-LOAD OF MONKEYS.
A plague of monkeys some years ago sorely troubled the officials at a small station on Saran Railway, in North-West India. Trucks full of grain for export were often stored up in the station, and the monkeys came down in large numbers from a neighbouring grove to help themselves to ths grain, picking bbles in the tarpauftn roof of ' the wagons.
The officials were wearied out with keeping watch and scaring away the thieves, who daily grew bolder, till an ingenious guard hit upon a stratagem. For several days sweets and fruits were put on the roofs of the wagons, with the result that the whole of the monkey colony were attracted to the spot, and soon became 'perfectly indifferent to man. One morning, when they were all busily feeding, an engine was stealthily attached to tho wagons, and suddenly the train moved off. The monkeys were quite scared, andi made no attempt to escape, sitting crouched together till the train had gone several miles and stopped at a jungle. Then they wanted no hint to leave. Every monkey leapt down howling., and fled into the jungle, whence they never returned to trouble the railway.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 664, 29 April 1914, Page 7
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199A TRAIN-LOAD OF MONKEYS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 664, 29 April 1914, Page 7
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